Current Executive Committee

President: Cathy Retter
Email: president@envirocare.org.au

Cathy came from New Zealand to Kuranda in 1980 on route to Weipa.

In her 7 years there she spent weekends seed collecting with aboriginal women, learning a few of the drier country species. She has worked in Information technology in various companies, moving from technical to people focus during the 1990’s, retiring as a contract project manager and business analyst. She and her husband also ran their own food and beverage business from home for 4 years. She is now employed with the Cairns Regional Council as a Business Manager.

Cathy is keen on bush walking and spending time outdoors. She has always supported environmental work financially and watched with great interest the completion of a 10-year revegetation program on a previously denuded Auckland island.

Cathy has worked as a regular nursery volunteer since coming to Kuranda. Elected Vice-president in 2005, she facilitated the Envirocare planning sessions held over the end of 2005/2006. She became President in 2006 and continues to lead the team to now. She is working with the executive to strengthen and expand the organisation.

Dr Ray Pierce is an conservation ecologist with forty years experience. He joined Kuranda Envirocare in 2008 and led the bird surveys in 2012.

Website manager: Dr Pam SchultzPam has been a member of Envirocare since 2007. She is a trained anthropologist and archaeologist and attained a PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2011.

Botanist: Dr Bruce Wannan

Dr Bruce Wannan has been a Kuranda resident for 18 years.

Bruce is a botanist who has worked in the biological sciences for over 30 years. For the last 18 he has been working FNQ as a environmental consultant and for the Queensland government as a biodiversity planner.

He is particularly interested in groundcover and understorey plant species and has a personal herbarium of over 3,000 species.